A new school year often means new notebooks, pencils and folders. For some New York City students this year, it means a new school or building, too.
Public school students returned to class on Thursday as administrators opened nine new schools and 24 new buildings, some replacing older structures.
The changes come as the number of New Yorkers younger than 20 fell by more than 186,000 over three years, according to recent census data analysis, and enrollment in the school system, the nation’s largest, declined from a decade ago.
But David C. Banks, the city’s schools chancellor, has highlighted an influx of migrant children as a bright spot. A spokesman for the Education Department also pointed to the pent-up demand for special programming that the new buildings could provide and new state requirements to gradually shrink class sizes by 2028.
The New York Times visited new buildings in the four boroughs where they were opened on Thursday morning.
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